10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. Africa: Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs). The other two are motionless.

Wildlife 183

Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 183

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Smaller frogs and toads, mice, bugs, worms, dog food, and carrion, you name it. Jose’s deep knowledge of rainforest wildlife and ecology is reflected in his detailed paintings of Spectacled Owls, Ornate Hawk-Eagles , and other jungle wildlife. Birds too, if they can catch them.

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Costa Rica Investigation Shelters Illinois 261

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2012

If we get close enough we might see a pink maw and slivers of white teeth, ready to take a prairie dog by the throat and choke the life out but also rather perversely adorable. Ferret 492 — a black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes — raises her head from a black-tailed prairie dog’s burrow, sniffs the April night.

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Ferrets Prairie Dogs Coyotes Kittens 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. Two more shadows in the spotlight, two of the most endangered carnivores of the sub-Saharan Africa are coming along the road, toward us: African Painted Dogs (Wild Dogs). Painted Dogs are already extinct in 25 out of 39 countries that they used to inhabit. Sniffing us.

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Africa South Africa Elephants Rhinos 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Current well-intentioned environmental pressures to emphasize harvesting large dead or dying trees, if realized, would have further adverse effects on such ecologically and esthetically important species as woodpeckers, swallows, wrens, nuthatches, and owls – to name a few 1.”

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? Greater Flamingos are considered cooperative breeders as fledglings are raised in a creche, in which large numbers of young are watched by multiple non-breeding adult greater flamingos. It is one of the largest flying birds in the world and seems to be capable of social learning ( source ).

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South Africa Africa Birds Research 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Between staying warm/cool, finding food, avoiding predators, migrating thousands of miles every year, finding mates, raising chicks and doing all this at the mercy of the elements, it makes sense that they have more brainpower than just simple instinct to run on. What does a Flammulated Owl do all night?

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Emotional Science Birds Mammals 212

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport. Falconry birds are essentially free to come and go as they choose when they are hunting (unlike bloodsports like cock fighting and dog fighting). This contribution to the education of our children is invaluable.

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League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Rapai reprints an editorial from the 1904 Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club that will remind many birders of more recent discussions on the Internet concerning the publication of owl and bird nest locations, its language only a little bit more civilized!

Michigan 236

Michigan Bahamas Endangered Species Research 236

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 28, 2015

This of course raises questions of what happens when all of the inland nesting grounds of all the loons becomes covered with glacial ice during ice ages, then later, the ice melts and the lakes return. Painted Buntings and nesting owls, Black-headed Gulls and mystery empids. My Best Bird of the Year is… Not a bird.

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2015 Costa Rica Birds Sparrows 187